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Politics & Law
Leadership
During the past year, as a member of Class XIII of Leadership Florida, I spent a good deal of time thinking about and discussing how this state is run. Every...
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Published on 8/1/1995
Be Careful What You Wish For
Federal health-care entitlements have benefited Florida more than any other state. But a balanced federal budget would end the party. Florida business could get stuck.Now that Congress appears at last...
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Published on 8/1/1995
Tomato Pasting
When Wayne Hawkins went to work for the Florida Tomato Exchange in 1974, there were 475 tomato growers on his mailing list. By 1990, there were about 230. This year,...
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Published on 8/1/1995
Around the State
FloridaCalifornia replaced Florida as the number one state for international tourists, the U.S. Department of Commerce reports. In 1994, 5.05 million international visitors vacationed in Florida, while 5.23 million visited...
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Published on 8/1/1995
Florida's HMO Medicare Bazaar
Clipboard in hand, Wanda Myers, 73, came prepared with questions when she arrived at Prudential SeniorCare's new-member orientation at Shoney's Restaurant in Largo. Wanda, along with her 74-year-old husband, Jake,...
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Published on 8/1/1995
Readers
Leased Employees"Lease-A-Worker" (FT June 1995) accurately explains why professional employer organizations have become one of Florida's fastest-growing industries. In fact our firm, National Business Solutions, headquartered in Clearwater, has grown...
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Published on 8/1/1995
The Leadership Void: Profiles in Cowardice
Florida's elected officials say they would love to reform the tax structure, "reinvent" the bureaucracy and address the state's other urgent needs. But they claim the voters won't let them....
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Published on 8/1/1995
Florida Trend's Gallery of Hired Guns
So, the big mess in Tallahassee is about to get even worse. What's a business person to do? Here's what many are doing. To avoid being mugged by the capital...
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Published on 8/1/1995
Property
Readers of letters to Florida Trend know that I touched a raw nerve with my March column opposing the property rights constitutional amendment. Proponents argue that anyone whose property is...
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Published on 7/1/1995
Now It's Personal
The inside crowd expected the big theme of the 1995 legislative session to be more punishment for prisoners. But as it turned out, the politicians were really more interested in...
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Published on 7/1/1995
Peso Shock
To see how tremors from the Mexican peso devaluation rocked healthy companies in other parts of Latin America, look no further than Boca Raton. There, in a well-appointed former law...
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Published on 7/1/1995
Pilgrim's Problem
The financial equivalent of a Nor'easter is buffeting Miami health insurer John Alden Financial Corp.Since March, John Alden has taken $25 million in pretax charges to earnings to create a...
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Published on 7/1/1995
Readers
LotteryI took the June issue of Florida Trend out of my mailbox, walked into the house, randomly opened it to page 10, and the very first thing I read was...
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Published on 7/1/1995
The Money Myth
By now, everyone knows about the havoc wreaked by derivative securities on U.S. businesses and municipalities in the past 18 months or so, even though explaining how derivatives work can...
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Published on 7/1/1995
So You Want To Publish A Newsletter
In 1987, Don Causey approached New York publishing giant Bantam Doubleday Dell with an idea to start a subscription newsletter targeting sport fishermen. Thousands of weekend anglers, Causey reasoned, would...
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Published on 7/1/1995
Tears Of The Crocodile
Tallahassee lawmakers and lobbyists rail against bureaucracy - but quietly work to keep it tightly in place. Watch what they do, not what they say.
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Published on 6/1/1995
Rules
Things are seldom what they seem. Skim milk masquerades as cream. - H.M.S. Pinafore
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Published on 6/1/1995
Detecting Tax Dodgers With Trade Data
Two Florida International University finance professors have developed a computer program to identify trade goods whose prices appear manipulated to avoid U.S. taxes. The professors, John Zdanowicz and Simon Pak,...
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Published on 6/1/1995
Around the State
FloridaMore than 100 Florida independent drug stores filed suit against 29 major drug makers including Bristol-Myers Squibb, Ciba-Geigy and Eli Lilly & Co, claiming the manufacturers violated antitrust laws by...
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Published on 6/1/1995
Readers
Tourism ForecastIn your April edition of Florida Trend magazine, you reported, "The [Florida] Department of Commerce optimistically projects that the total number of visitors to Florida will rebound in 1995...
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Published on 6/1/1995
Wireless World
Latin America's telecommunications industry is playing technological catch-up through cellular and satellite developments.
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Published on 6/1/1995
Raising The Risks of Securities Fraud
Charles V. Senatore became the top securities regulator in the Southeast in March 1994, when the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission tapped him to head one of five new regional headquarters, in Miami, where Senatore supervises a staff of 120.
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Published on 6/1/1995
Lease-a-Worker
After years of scandal, Florida's employee leasing industry is thriving by changing the employer-worker relationship at small and medium-sized businesses.
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Published on 6/1/1995
The Bud Paxson Show
In 1977, Lowell W. "Bud" Paxson owned a struggling AM radio station in St. Petersburg. Tight on money and up against pay day, he visited an advertiser who was late...
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Published on 6/1/1995
The Shipping News
"Location, location, location" is a maxim of the real estate industry. Lately, however, it better explains Florida's new role in international trade. Last December's Summit of the Americas marked the...
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Published on 6/1/1995
